It was an unusual winter in Washington, D.C. While the city was buried beneath the area’s largest snowstorm in recorded history, AU students relished a week without classes and witnessed the collapse of the Mary Graydon Center canopy as it succumbed to the weight of over two feet of snow, falling to the ground with a resounding crash.
It’s a gorgeous mid-April day in the District. So gorgeous, in part, because the Office of Admissions at American University has chosen today to be AU Preview Day. Incoming freshmen from all over the Eastern Seaboard flock with their parents to this beacon of higher education in our nation’s capital.
The progressive community took a loss this past January with the death of historian Howard Zinn — college professor, World War II bombardier, and author of the renowned “A People’s History of the United States.” Zinn was a relentless critic of war, inequality and injustice wherever he saw it.
Junior Ashley Joyce has added her voice to the exploding debate on Alex Knepper's misogynistic diatribe in AU's student paper, The Eagle. Knepper's editorial has received a lot of attention (see below for links) and created a vocal and active backlash on campus from women's rights advocates. For more on that, check out the Campus Campaign for Consent.
Keep your eyes peeled for the Spring '10 issue of AWOL with a print version of Ashley's article. You can also read it online here.
Jen Calatone's (Eagle Editor-in-Chief) and Charlie Szold's (Managing Editor for News) responses
Health care reform is pretty much in the bag. President Barack Obama was triumphant in at least getting a bill passed, and folks on the left seem to have come to some consensus that hey, at least it's better than nothing.
But over at The Progressive, Matthew Rothschild is having none of it. "Seems to me that Obama played us all for fools," he writes.
